we could not have covered that story without you guys sending us data for us to follow up on. and i am very thankful that you watching this show consistently send stuff into our blog that helps us cover the news in a way we could not do otherwise. i am thankful for that. and while we're on the subject, honestly, i'm thankful for everybody who had the stamina and resolve to stand in those long lines to vote this year. i'm thankful for anybody who volunteered on the election effort on either side whose job it was to talk people into voting, and to stick it out, to actually get your vote cast. i'm thankful that regardless of the two candidates in this case and their two parties, in one state this year, it proved untenable to win a seat in the united states senate by mocking and attacking your opponent for being part native american. particularly on this holiday, i am thankful that in 2012, running an overtly race-based campaign could take an incumbent who everybody thought would probably win and hold on to his seat, could take that incumbent and instead have him lose his seat by